skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What I want is very simple: I want software that doesn't send anything to the Internet without some explicit intent first."

It exists. I use such software everyday. For example, I am submitting this comment using a text-only browser that does not auto-load resources.

But this type of smaller, simpler software is not popular.

For example, everyone commenting in this thread is likely using a browser that auto-loads resources to submit their comments. HN is more or less a text-only website and this "feature" is not technically necessary for submitting comments. All so-called "modern" web browsers send requests to the internet without explicit intent first. IN addition to auto-loading resources, these browsers automatically run Javascript which often sends further requests never intended by the web user.

Brand new Apple computers now send packets to the internet as soon as the owner plugs them in for the first time. This may enable tracking and/or data collection. Apple proponents would likely argue "convenience" is the goal. This might be true. But the goal is not the issue. The issue is how much the computer owner is allowed to control the computer they buy. Some owners might prefer that the computer should not automatically send packets to remote Apple servers. Often it is not even possible to disable this behaviour. Computer purchasers never asked for these "convenenience" features. Like the subject of this submission, Apple Photos, these are Apple's decisions. The computer owner is not allowed to make decisions about whether to enable or disable "convenience" features.

As the court acknowledged in its opinion in US v Google, default settings are significant. In this case, it is more than a default setting. It is something the owner cannot change.
It's not just EPYC, Lenovo makes heavy use of PSB (Platform Secure Boot) locking for their desktop/workstation machines too (TR or Ryzen Pro). The PSB feature is enabled by default so when installing a new CPU the user is prompted to lock it at every boot until the feature is disabled in BIOS.

The locking is handled on-chip, it's permanent, and it leaves the CPU working only on the OEMs motherboard/BIOS. This poisons the used parts market. But worse, these systems are always just one BIOS update away from not booting the fused CPUs anymore (e.g. signing the firmware update with new keys).

AMD included this in their CPUs because large OEMs like Lenovo and Dell asked for it. There's no extra security being offered by this feature, despite the OEMs throwing the word around every time to cover up it's only securing profit.
> In the 1970s, the feared effect was global cooling

This is a common trope but it’s mostly been promoted by fossil fuel lobbyists to pretend climate scientists weren’t right than reality. That alternate history is mostly promulgated by the likes of noted-creationist Duane Gish or general purpose denialists like Stephen Milloy, but it doesn’t hold up when you look at the record.

People had been concerned about global warming since 1896, and scientists had been increasingly concerned before World War II. There were a handful of papers in the early 1970s predicting cooling based on aerosol effects BUT those did not reflect widespread consensus and other researchers at the same time published papers predicting warming, and those papers were considered stronger.

What most of this hangs off of is that Time magazine “Another Ice Age?” article which sounded dramatic but was actually inconclusive about the future. It sold a lot of issues, but it wasn’t exactly a climate science journal.

By the end of the 1970s, consensus had been reached that the earth was warming and most climate science research was focused on how it would happen rather than whether.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

Price discrimination has a clear definition. It’s not illegal in the US (when consumers are the victims anyway) but it has a clear meaning and you’re blurring the lines for I’m not sure what reason. Your example of a video game doing regional pricing is a perfect example of textbook price discrimination.

Pricing a good or service at a level that inherently excludes those unwilling or unable to pay is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability
This must be a difference between the methods we are using to look up drivers. I'm using dell's support site and typing the dell service tag to look at all the drivers. When I click on storage drivers section, I see nothing in the RST department. Your link seems to point to a search tool to find RST drivers which I did not know about.
The previous comment correctly summarized the actual state of things on all counts. Look closer.
I wonder if TSMC Arizona’s reliance on Taiwanese expats will ever go away or if it’s going to be permanent. You may need a majority expat workforce for the magic sauce to work.
Never heard of "nuke and pave" before, nice idiom! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuke_and_pave
I have worked in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.

Belgium took 3 years to process the form for national insurance which caused me to draw down about 20,000 Euros. I couldn't drive my European vehicle in Belgium because I didn't have Belgium license plate which was required for insurance. Rather than working for the first 3months, I had to visit the gemeentehuis every alternate day to push some piece of paperwork to some government authority. I couldn't park my car in Belgium outside my property because I didn't have permission to do so because it wasn't a Belgian vehicle. In order to rent a property I needed a Belgian bank account, which I could only get if I was a Belgian resident, forcing me to live in a hotel temporarily and using that as my address. I required my accounts to be signed off by a Belgian notary, of which there is a government enforced limit, so to speak to one for a microsecond cost 1000 Euros minimum. At the time, operating a British company in Belgium cost 17,000 Euros fee. I still receive paperwork from the Belgian government more than 10 years after leaving.

The other countries aren't much better, and the only country that was easy to start working in was the UK.
For the majority who are not denied our system is better. Waits are rarely long and that costs money as well.

i don't like the curret system but it isn't as bad as you would think if you read he comnents on the internet.
Seems unlikely. Freight would be heading primarily from Asia to either Europe or US East coast, and maybe a bit in the opposite direction.

In either case, Europe and the US have such efficient rail/road freight that I can't see economics of putting a hub in Iceland making sense. You may as well have ships travel direct to the respective continental mainlands.
San Francisco House Prices Drop Back to 2019 as Tech Jobs Evaporate
To be fair despite Valve's tech stack being easy to replicate, their actual competition mostly hasn't replicated their feature set in full? Epic took a while to ramp up to "shopping carts" despite having a pretty large funding model, still doesn't have little gimmicks like trading cards and chat stickers, w/e. That's not really moat but it seems like the competition doesn't want to invest to exact parity.

(And a lot of stores like Ubisofts or EA's were very feature lite tbh.)
I asked it:

> How can the Qur'an acknowledge the Torah (Tawrat), Psalms (Zabur), and the Gospel (Injil) as divine revelations from God (Allah) yet deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Don't these contradictions falsify the truth of the text?

It gave the classic counter argument:

> A: The Qur'an acknowledges the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel as divine revelations from God, emphasizing their role as guidance for their respective communities. However, it also teaches that these scriptures were either altered or misinterpreted over time.

Of course, the Qu'ran makes these theological assertions rather than one grounded in concrete historical or manuscript evidence. Nevertheless, your app does a good job at fairly representing the beliefs of the Qur'an.
It was deliberately so, Dave wanted to be PM at lot and gave the Eurosceptics of the Tory party everything they wanted.

A simple question for a massively complex problem.

An "advisory" referendum that was guaranteed to be treated as legally binding (will of the people and all that).

Being advisory meant that it avoided what laws there were on referendum, like being able to disenfranchise UK expats of which there were a lot in the EU. Maybe this also allowed it to be a simple 50.1% majority as well, I forget.

Dominic Cummings and Vote Leave rang rings around everyone and got the result they wanted.
I once had a colleague that told me in order to make a small fortune, all you need to do is begin with a large fortune.
Very difficult to disrupt American healthcare when health insurance companies determine your rates, direct pay patients often the most vulnerable, and instead of focusing on patient care you have to focus on stupid administrative tasks to deal with different types of health insurance plans/pharmacy benefit managers/vendors.

Thanks to decades of neo-liberalism (the idea of deregulation and "free market" economy). Americans have allowed corporations to form massive entities (in health insurance, UHC + optum bank + optima rx comes to mind) to the point of manipulating the price to their advantage. Then you have to deal with some companies that deny a majority of your claims in hopes that you (the patient and/or healthcare provider) give up (delay, deny, defend policies) or pay out of pocket for treatment.

American healthcare industry is a fucking mess.
Here is an article from the New York Times in 1975, that trots out quite a few Ph.D. recipients:

"That the climate, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, has been getting cooler since about 1950, is well estabt lished—if one ignores the last two winters."

https://archive.ph/k6xfu
That and power. The GB200 needs 1000W per GPU.

Eight racks of GB200's? You're talking about 1 megawatt of power. Well over that if you include PSU losses, cooling, and all the networking, storage, memory...
I misunderstood. apologies.
To get a good laugh.

If I'm bored, I'll ask chat GPT something like, including the steering wheel, how many wheels does a car have? It's really easy to get most LLMs tripped up, and the rantings they generate can be pretty hilarious.

On a more serious note, Infinite Craft has made a pretty entertaining game out of those non-sequitur outputs.
He was that rare honest politician, and I get the impression the US hates honest politicians and worships liars. Carter was far better than the US deserved.
”They haven’t made an argument as to why we should do that just for them…”

What “we”? They’ve already raised billions, and I suspect they’re about to succeed at raising tens of billions more, despite the skepticism of random HN users.
Little Snitch is one of the best pieces of software out there. It’s essential for every macOS user, works very well, and is a one-time payment. I truly hope it stays that way and doesn’t go down the same path as 1Password. I’m very grateful to the developers for creating such an excellent product. I wish more software were like this.
Throwaway vapes are complete resource wastes. Society pays for cleaning up the mess, so at the very least they should be taxed, and seeing the amount of pollution they create and therefore the cost of cleanup that should probably be very highly, pricing them out of the market anyway. Also they essentially only exist to make young people addicted (in contrast to non-throwaway vapes).
The Serial Port is a very good channel. Been learning a lot with their last videos, almost feels like we're traveling in time :)
Yes, "first to arrive at AGI" could indeed become a moat, if OpenAI can get there before the clock runs out. In fact, that's what's driving all the spending.
IP Lawyers and Nuclear Lobbyists, presumably
This is untrue unless “mass media” means “one issue each of Time and Newsweek quoting Reid Bryson”.
One way to build a technical moat is to build services which encourage lock-in, and therefore make it hard to switch to a competitor. Some of OpenAI's product releases help facilitate that: the Assistant API creates persistent threads that cannot be exported, and their File Search APIs build vector stores that cannot be exported.
This is absolutely true. Bluesky can become decentralized but it will take a fair amount of work.

What BLuesky does do is keep the door open for competition. If you want, you can stand up a version of its entire system (all open source). Or, you could write your own system that uses the AT Proto DID stuff to let people access their posts and follows, etc, in any way you want.

And, BLuesky also serves as a bootstrap for AT Proto writ large. The whole distributed identity thing has huge potential going forward and it’s use by Bsky is an excellent start.
I’m not sure which immediate healthcare you’re talking about. Where I live in the US earliest available specialist I was seeking (nothing too special) was months away.

We do have highest spending for healthcare among peers, having healthcare universal wouldn’t necessary mean long wait times.
What if the next one to get there produces a similar service for 5% less? Race to the bottom.

And would AI that is tied to some interface that provides lock-in even be qualified to be called general? I have trouble pointing my finger on it, but AGI and lock-in causes a strong dissonance in my brain. Would AGI perhaps strictly imply commodity? (assuming that more than one supplier exists)
I never used this service but based on their site. It's aimed at pediatric care?

With the decline in birth rates in the US, didn't seem like a sustainable model from the get go.
100%. Great API is a must have, great SDK is nice to have.

In my case SDK is an unnecessary abstraction.

I wrote 50+ SaaS app integrations from scratch and the last thing I want to do is bring over 50 dependencies rather than make simple HTTP requests.
This would be an awesome build your own 8bit computer project - I would buy it to do together with my kids. Super cool
Every time a new model comes out I ask it to locate El Dorado or Shangri-La for me. That’s my criteria for AGI/ASI.

Alas I am still without my mythical city of gold.
> I wonder what enabled the Inca to imagine all of these things...

Probably the same way as the Chinese, Romans, Persians, Hittites, Assyrians, Olmec, Mexica, and all the other large scale political polities of the world.

> How do you even spread those ideas across such a wide area without literacy?

Most of the world has been illiterate for most of history. Even after the invention of writing, most practical knowledge was orally transmitted. Writing was for warehouse records so you could prove that the peasants really did owe you that ox.
> Also ... Can we stop vilifying this life-saving habit?

As a former smoker I’ve recently started vaping because I love nicotine and I think the risk / reward is worth it.

Vaping has been around at this point for over a decade, yet the evidence of harm is minimal. Some inflammatory responses, oxidative stress and potentially pre cancerous changes in gene expression. But that’s pretty much it (for UK legal products at least).

I wouldn’t call it healthy but consider it more like alcohol or sugar rather than traditional tobacco.
"I hate being cynical about something like this. I want there to be affordable health solutions for people."

Then do it- that's the point of the art piece, in a very literal way. Everybody fixates on the aesthetics around this kind of thing, but if it moves you to action than it's working.

So let it work, learn what you need to learn to help folks in the ways that you feel this project fails.

And then you won't have the cynical feeling that you don't like.
> you got this from one episode on foxnews

This is such a common and tired meme. It aims to stomp on something that someone said with a nonsensical argument. A bit of shooting the messenger and an appeal to authority (the veil attack being that everything that isn't Fox News is true and pure).

Fox News has its problem, every media outlet has. And yet, 95% of so-called reliable "news" outlets lied to the entire nation for over three years about such things as Biden's cognitive problems (and much more). Be careful who you choose as your source for truth. You should not trust anyone in the media. Yes, that means FNN included.

To address your personal attack: I had better math, history, science and, yes, English scores in public high school in Massachusetts as a foreign student educated in Argentina. I could read and write better than most in my class. I knew more about history, geography, philosophy and was better at math, physics, chemistry, etc. So, say what you want, at least this one data point, as flawed as it might be, actually lived through many experiences that showed me the real differences. Later on I made sure my own children did not fall victims to these inadequacies by supplementing the substandard education (at a world level) with learning at home.

And this isn't about just one country outside the US. For example, I have friends in Singapore, Italy, Spain, Germany and other places whos kids can run circles around your average US-educated high-school graduate.

> where do you think bezos, zuck, gates, jobs… went to school - fucking Argentina?!

One would think that before someone decides to make a comment like that they would take a few minutes to actually educate themselves and understand what they are about to say. Go learn about the people you listed there and understand.

Your insulting comments about Argentina (or nations other than the US by extension) is precisely why people around the world have formed certain opinions about Americans. You lack perspective, culture and knowledge about what you owe the rest of the world. Be humble, learn a little history and understand the shoulders you are standing on. If the history of the modern world is a meter long, the US is responsible for approximately 1 millimeter of it, if that.

Here, I'll give you a push-start: Go read about the history of the artificial heart, heart bypass surgery and blood transfusions. And, while you are at it, make a list of science, engineering and cultural contributions from around the world for some perspective.

You can believe anything you wish. Or you can make an attempt to understand reality and be a part of the solution. I want things to change for the better. It appears that you actually believe we have the best system of education. Well, I am not sure what to say other than: You are wrong. We might actually have one of the worst.
> get an encrypted result set.

seems to me at that point, the server knows what segment of the overall dataset is being returned.
Okay maybe maybe but hear me out -- it would be hilarious if this started happening often enough that the LLMs started echoing it XD. That would certainly cause some legal headaches.
Another problem is that people will blame the government entirely on inflation, but then give themselves the credit for wage increases. It doesn't help that wage increases disproportionately go towards those those to switch jobs.
Hi! Currently we generate a whole diff (like cmd+shift+k in Cursor). But plan to add there rest soon!:)
Which country would go below 15% VAT?

Most big ones are above 20% and use it to get tax money for the government.

Also if you tried to sell/export something to EU you geneally use their VAT rate anyway.
I wouldn't say I particularly like bash, bash has seen a ton of improvements since Apple stopped updating the vendored version. Using that old bash which is frozen for non-technical reasons just seems stupid to me.

If you don't want bash-specific features, you might as well use zsh or dash or whatever lives in /bin/sh. If you do want bash-specific features, you might as well take advantage of the latest and greatest.

On that note, on my Macs, the bash I want is usually /opt/pkg/bin/bash or /run/current-system/sw/bin/bash :)
I don't see how it could happen overnight - so I don't imagine it's possible it happens tomorrow.

I could imagine it happening over the course of years. But the question then is - what would it take to change the public's minds?
No, if you don't come with a database solution, any paper or physical only solution is 100% counterfeitable, with just enough means poured into it.

Mafias all around the world will buy expensively any valid or even used identity document just for this purpose, i.e. to study it and perfect their forgery skills.

The process you witnessed is a remnant of the past, a feature of the necessary transition period, and I hope it disappears soon, because that's a giant gaping security hole.
Took me 2 days or so
Previous discussions, from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30116316 (71 points, 15 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033611 (60 points, 13 comments)

Has anyone tried Rebelle, the commercial painting app that uses this method?
m_ISS ~ 4.5e5 kg [1]

Rocket equation [2]:

m_0 = m_f exp(v_delta / v_e)

where

m_f = final mass, i.e. mass of ISS and the boosters

m_0 = m_f + propellant mass

v_delta = velocity change

v_e = effective exhaust velocity of the boosters

Let's try a high-thrust transfer from LEO to the Lunar Gateway's orbit via TLI (Trans-Lunar Injection) [3]:

v_delta = 3.20 + 0.43 = 3.63 km/s

For boosters, let's use the dual-engine Centaur III (because Wikipedia has mass and v_e data for it) [4]:

m_dry = 2462 kg

m_propellant = 20830 kg

v_e = 4.418 km/s

The idea is to attach n of these to the ISS. The rocket equation becomes

m_ISS + n (m_dry + m_propellant) = (m_ISS + n m_dry) exp(v_delta / v_e)

Solve for n:

n = m_ISS (exp(v_delta / v_e) - 1) / (m_propellant + m_dry (1 - exp(v_delta / v_e)) )

Plug in numbers and find

n ~ 32.4

So we need 33 Centaur III (and some way to attach them, which I optimistically assume won't add significantly to the ISS mass).

Total Centaur III + propellant mass: 33 * (2462 + 20830) = 768636 kg

Planned Starship payload capacity to LEO is 2e5 kg [5], so assuming that a way can be found to fit 7 Centaur III in its payload bay, we can get all 33 boosters to LEO with five Starship launches.

Why not use Starship itself? Its Raptor Vacuum engines have lower v_e (~3.7 km/s) [6], and if you want it back, you need to add fuel for the return trip to m_f. Exercise for the reader!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Earth_Lunar_Gat...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(rocket_stage)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_(spacecraft)

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor#Raptor_Vacuum
Well, no, it's "this interface works fine for you if you implement it."

The kernel doesn't magically know whether your device file has data available to read, your device file has to define what that means. That's all I'm referring to. Hooking that up to kqueue usually involves writing 5-10 lines of code.
It’s a podcast and you’re acting like it’s just been signed into law.
He didn't end the depression. it clearly continued right to wwii. You can dabate how things might have been if he had been allowed all his ideas (some of which were as undemocratic as what trump wants)
So, it took Google a whole year to display ads. That's really not the description of a company that is " without a clear path to profitability".
Netguard if you want to use it on Android https://netguard.me/
Perhaps, but the world is full of examples of problems that are/were "solvable" but remained unsolved for long periods of time causing a lot of harm.

The fact that the problem still exists at all is an indicator it's not actually that easy.
For those who do not know the reference...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
One of the greater hacker conferences in the year.
(I am a huge fan of CCC and all events they do)
Ah nicely done! I was just about to build this